Infant son of John Sherman Dickson and Carrie E. Turner Dickson. A member of triplets.
Published in The Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, SC on Tuesday, October 12, 1920 (page 1)
TWO OF TRIPLETS DIED FRIDAY P.M.
(This is only part of the article transcribed by Randi Powell)
Surviving Member of Triplets in Good Heath and is Brought Home from Spartanburg Hospital.
~ Ruby and McLean Dickson, the boy and one of the girls in the set of triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Dickson, of route 7, died Friday afternoon in the Good Samaritan hospital of Spartanburg.
~ The cause of the deaths of the two babies is not definitely known. They were not well on Thursday when Mr. and Mrs. Dickson visited them at the Spartanburg hospital, but it was not thought their condition was serious. Friday afternoon a telephone message received here reported that one died at 1:30 and the other at 2:30 that afternoon. Pearl, the third of the triplets, is in good health.
~ The bodies of the babies were buried Saturday in the Mount Zion cemetery in Spartanburg county, where Mr. Dickson has other relatives interred.
~ The triplets were born August 1st of this year. The two that died were just nine weeks and six days old. They had been in hospitals practically ever since their birth, having remained in the City Hospital here about two weeks before being taken to the Baby Hospital at Saluda. When that institution closed the first of September the babies were placed in the Good Samaritan hospital at Spartanburg.
Published in The Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, SC on Tuesday, October 12, 1920 (page 1)
TWO OF TRIPLETS DIED FRIDAY P.M.
(This is only part of the article transcribed by Randi Powell)
Surviving Member of Triplets in Good Heath and is Brought Home from Spartanburg Hospital.
~ Ruby and McLean Dickson, the boy and one of the girls in the set of triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Dickson, of route 7, died Friday afternoon in the Good Samaritan hospital of Spartanburg.
~ The cause of the deaths of the two babies is not definitely known. They were not well on Thursday when Mr. and Mrs. Dickson visited them at the Spartanburg hospital, but it was not thought their condition was serious. Friday afternoon a telephone message received here reported that one died at 1:30 and the other at 2:30 that afternoon. Pearl, the third of the triplets, is in good health.
~ The bodies of the babies were buried Saturday in the Mount Zion cemetery in Spartanburg county, where Mr. Dickson has other relatives interred.
~ The triplets were born August 1st of this year. The two that died were just nine weeks and six days old. They had been in hospitals practically ever since their birth, having remained in the City Hospital here about two weeks before being taken to the Baby Hospital at Saluda. When that institution closed the first of September the babies were placed in the Good Samaritan hospital at Spartanburg.
Infant son of John Sherman Dickson and Carrie E. Turner Dickson. A member of triplets.
Published in The Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, SC on Tuesday, October 12, 1920 (page 1)
TWO OF TRIPLETS DIED FRIDAY P.M.
(This is only part of the article transcribed by Randi Powell)
Surviving Member of Triplets in Good Heath and is Brought Home from Spartanburg Hospital.
~ Ruby and McLean Dickson, the boy and one of the girls in the set of triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Dickson, of route 7, died Friday afternoon in the Good Samaritan hospital of Spartanburg.
~ The cause of the deaths of the two babies is not definitely known. They were not well on Thursday when Mr. and Mrs. Dickson visited them at the Spartanburg hospital, but it was not thought their condition was serious. Friday afternoon a telephone message received here reported that one died at 1:30 and the other at 2:30 that afternoon. Pearl, the third of the triplets, is in good health.
~ The bodies of the babies were buried Saturday in the Mount Zion cemetery in Spartanburg county, where Mr. Dickson has other relatives interred.
~ The triplets were born August 1st of this year. The two that died were just nine weeks and six days old. They had been in hospitals practically ever since their birth, having remained in the City Hospital here about two weeks before being taken to the Baby Hospital at Saluda. When that institution closed the first of September the babies were placed in the Good Samaritan hospital at Spartanburg.
Published in The Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, SC on Tuesday, October 12, 1920 (page 1)
TWO OF TRIPLETS DIED FRIDAY P.M.
(This is only part of the article transcribed by Randi Powell)
Surviving Member of Triplets in Good Heath and is Brought Home from Spartanburg Hospital.
~ Ruby and McLean Dickson, the boy and one of the girls in the set of triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Dickson, of route 7, died Friday afternoon in the Good Samaritan hospital of Spartanburg.
~ The cause of the deaths of the two babies is not definitely known. They were not well on Thursday when Mr. and Mrs. Dickson visited them at the Spartanburg hospital, but it was not thought their condition was serious. Friday afternoon a telephone message received here reported that one died at 1:30 and the other at 2:30 that afternoon. Pearl, the third of the triplets, is in good health.
~ The bodies of the babies were buried Saturday in the Mount Zion cemetery in Spartanburg county, where Mr. Dickson has other relatives interred.
~ The triplets were born August 1st of this year. The two that died were just nine weeks and six days old. They had been in hospitals practically ever since their birth, having remained in the City Hospital here about two weeks before being taken to the Baby Hospital at Saluda. When that institution closed the first of September the babies were placed in the Good Samaritan hospital at Spartanburg.
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This grave is in the part of the cemetery across US 29 from the church.
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